CROSSING SMASHES
TWO OCCUR IN ONE DAY IN VICTORIA ELECTRIC TRAIN STRIKES SMALL CAR l THREE PERSONS KILLED MELBOURNE, August 21. Two level-crossing accidents occured in Victoria today. The first was at Carrum, 20 miles from Melbourne late this afternoon, when three persons were killed and two injured. The killed .were: Helen Hobbs, aged 31, Mrs Winnie Rouse, aged 28, and Charles Freeling, aged 50. They were the occupants of a small car which struck an electric train. The injured were Mrs Rouse’s husband and their three-year-old child. The driver apparently tried to accelerate over the crossing before the train reached it. The car was smashed to pieces. The other accident occurred at Melbourne, 40 miles from Melbourne, early tonight, when a motor-van was struck by a Ballarat train. Twelve persons were injured, some of them seriously.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 August 1938, Page 5
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137CROSSING SMASHES Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 August 1938, Page 5
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